Where is AS located after Binutils is installed?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 18:49:32 PDT 2015


>> Where is AS located after binutils is installed?
>
> However, you won't have much luck with that, because binutils doesn't
> come with GNU as on OS X. That's not a choice MacPorts made, but done
> by upstream's configure.ac, see line 909, where it says
>   noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gprof"
> in a case matching x86_64-*-darwin*.
>
> I assume this is because GNU as is actually not useful on OS X, but you'd
> have to ask upstream on details.

"Please enable AS and LD in configure.ac for OS X",
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18997.


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